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Monday, November 11, 2013

#788: Ken Hutcherson

Kenneth “Hutch” Hutcherson is a former football player,
pastor (Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, WA), NOM-ally (the
local NOM figurehead is one Joseph Backholm)
and deranged anti-gay preacher who is working to overturn the state’s marriage
equality law and is known for grandiose, incoherent babbling and repeated calls for violence.
To take some examples of his antics, there is the particularly idiotic WND screed where he argued that it is time to “take back the rainbow for God” and let “the homosexual community
find a different religious symbol to commandeer.” Then, of course, there is his assertion that beating a child will prevent that child from being gay, and that
homosexuality is the result of bad parenting (yes, he doesn’t quite manage to
see the problem involved in believing those two things simultaneously).

Hutcherson is also a creationist, who has tried to have
evolution banned from public schools through the remarkably effective weapon of
prayer: “Dear Prayer Warrior,” says Hutcherson,
“[p]ut your prayer knee pads on. I think God is leading me to raise support to
sue the state of Washington Board of Education for teaching a known lie,
evolution. Let’s see how we can win this battle and then take it to the federal
level.”

Diagnosis: Idiot. Complete. And a real piece of shit. His
particular influence is unclear – over and above his obvious, negative local
influence – but at least he contributes to the big mass of incoherent bigotry
that is the wingnut anti-gay movement.